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CHINA'S WOMEN | REPLANNING OF
IN WAR-TIME
A Female Army: Relief Work
A most Interesting story of the work Chinese women are now doing for their country is brought by as Lucy Tou graduate of Yenching Univer- sity, Pelping, who has come to London in the course of a world lecture tour which be- gan in July. She is a personal friend of Mme. Chiang Kai- shek. After graduating, this attractive girl was asked by the Government to take part in the work of the
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MUSEUM AREA
South Kensington £1,000,000 Scheme
Plans for the redevelopment of the
"South Kensington Site." though still the subject of neo- tiation, are outlined in the second report of the Standing Commis- sion on Museums and Galleries. published recently.
The Commission consists of Sir Evan Charteris, K.C.-chairman- Lord Bainiel, M.P., the Earl of Harewood, the Earl of chester, Sir George Macdonald, Sir Henry Vers. Sir Charles Peers, Sir bert Seward, and Mr. G. M. Young. Al-
new life movement which has The new scheme for the reor- done so math for the enlighten-ganisation of the museums and ment of China, and she continued Kensington has been made neces- teaching institutions of South this work after receiving a natver- alty teaching appointment,
FIGHTING AT THE FRONT speaking of the various ways in
which Chinese women are meeting the present crisis Miss Tou said that more than 40.000 women have gone through the military training
coursc.
sary by the need for providing ac- commodation for the Royal Col- Ethnography, '“" Jege of Art and a new Museum of
On broad lines, the plan pro- sides for teaching institutions to be concentrated, north of Imperial Institute-road. and making Ex- hibition-road the dividing line be- tween the artistle" and scientific
They go to the front as ordinary soldiers do, and many have Deen killed or wounded. More than a collections housed in, South Ken- month ago Mae Pet Chung-nsisington.
Was appointed Commander-in- For the "new building of the Chief of this separate army.
Royal College of Art, the vacant
Other women are fighting as site west of the Royal College of guerrillas. Many other women are Music is contemplated, and an ex- helping" the soldiers and thebansion in due course of the armies in the rear. Most of the Science Museum will be made first-aid work and nursing in hos- possible by the eventual vacation pitals is done by women.
of the "Imperial College of Science "In a country at war to resist buildings on the south side of Im- aggression a great deal of pro-perial Institute-road.
ORDER OF PRIORITY
paganda work is required," said Miss Tou. "Groups of women are going about the country speaking. This, in turn, will enable the "giving entertainments of song and site, originally earmarked by the drama and carrying out mass Bell Committee in 1911-1912 for education, partly for propaganda the expansion of the Science and partly in connection with the Museum, OR the west of the national new life movement. Museum facing Queen's-gate, to be "Refugee relief work engages utilised for the new Museum of the help of worien in its two as-Ethnography. pects the provision of refugee The Commission considers that camps for adults, and, still, more the second, third and fourth quad- Important, the care of refugee rants of the British Museum "Tron children and babies. This work Library" should be constructed us began on a rational scale with one continuous operation. the care of 20,000 refugee children,
EVACUATING THE CHILDREN
Second in point of urgency is the completion, by 1942, of the "With my experience of evacua-new building to house the Na- tion work in China I am especially tional Library of Scotland. The interested in what is now being Commission
Iecommends that. done for the evacuation of chil-next year, the second half of the dren from London. We sent a Entomology Block of the Natural group of women to the war zone History Museum and the Lecture to collect the children and trans-Hall of the Royal Scottish Museum port them to a safety zone, where should be completed.. we have placed them in institu- tions like orphanages in twelve different places.
"We give them not only food. shelter, and recreation, but educa- tion.
Our two greatest needs are money and more trained teachers.
Future building plans include a Central Section of the Science Natural History Museum, and the Museum, a Northern Wing of the
new Museum of Ethnography.
Building schemes which, in the
Miss Tou spoke of the intense Commission's view, should be com- bombardments..ahe had witnessed pleted within the next 10 years are Felping. Tientsin, and Nanking, likely to cost well over £1000,000. and affirmed her belief that the capture of Hankow would not mean that Japan could win the
war..
Miss Tou will lecture in London
or these and other matters, and hopes to receive help for the or- phan' children. Five pounds of British money, she says, will main- tain one of them for a year,
HOUSING ARMY'S
MARRIED MEN
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ROYAL MAIL AND
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PACIFIC STEAM
Shipping Fusion
It is officially announced that
Royal Mail Lines, Limited, has ac-
quired the Pacifc Steam Naviga- tion Company, whose business will continue as heretofore with head- quarters at Liverpool
Permanent Camps To pondent
Be Enlarged
The Government 18
spending
many thousands of pounds to provide more comfortable and adequate quarters for married soldiers.
"The Times" Shipping Corres- writes: The Pacifc team was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1840 and so will be celebrating its centenary two years hence.
!
The company owns a fleet of passenger and cargo motor-vessels and steamships engaged in ser- The number of soldiers on the vices between the United King- married establishment 1x
dom and the West" Coast of South chiefly represented by warrant América by way of the West In- cificers and the majority of non- also through the Straits of Magel- dies and the Panama Canal, and commissioned officers. Changes in
now
the recruiting system, recently in-fan.
troduced, have increased the pro- The largest liner owned by the portion of married' men. Addi-company is the Reina del Pacifico, tional accommodation is nece a motor-vessel of 17,700 tons gross bullt by Harland and Wolf in 1931.
aary:
The ship has proved very popu- lar in the route, and sooner or later, the construction of a vessel of similar class will need to be considered.
"
In the Aldershot Command £100,000 £ to be spent.” The / increared establishment at the Mechanical Transport Depot at "Feltham, Middlesex, has also necessitated construction of more married quarters. Shrivenham, Berkshire, a
The chairman of the Pacific military station, is to absorb Steam Navigation Company is Mr. £1,250,000 to provide permanent Alfred Woods, who is chairman of accommodation for an Anti-Air- the United Kingdom and Con- craft Group. This entails the ex-Freight Conferences and is chair- tinental River Plate and Brazil penditure of a further £350.000
пет
for housing accommodation for man of the Liverpool Steam Ship married officers and soldiers.
Owners' Association this year.
There are, too, at Catterick, Two of the directors of the Paci | many married soldiers not on the fic Steam are also on the board-of married quarters roll, whose needs Royal Mail Lines, Limited, which cannot be met by civilian housing serves the Atlantic coasts of Bouth schemes.
America and the Pacific Coast of North America
Accommodation of the same
dation-of- character is urgently needed the Salisbury Plain area,'
The chairman of Royal Matt Lines is Lord Essendon C
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